I actually just recently spoke with Hellman for an interview. He's focusing on educating people about the risk of maintaining nuclear deterrents. Also has a new book out that might not be what you expect:
Until then you had to exchange keys ahead of time with known parties. With public/private keys, you became able to do so in real time with arbitrary third parties. I'd gather they knew full well it wouldn't hyperbole.
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I actually just recently spoke with Hellman for an interview. He's focusing on educating people about the risk of maintaining nuclear deterrents. Also has a new book out that might not be what you expect:
https://anewmap.com/
> https://anewmap.com/
Yes, pretty hard to imagine. That said, it looks pretty interesting.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/27/cryptography-pioneer-marty...
Random: I met Whit Diffie at my brother's wedding a couple years ago. He was charming.
Wow, to be able to make that the lead sentence and it turns out not to be hyperbole!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#Classi...